four film stills featuring Vincent Price as Dr Anton Phibes and Virginia North as Vulnavia: the appear to be cooking up a big vat of Brussels sprouts; Phibes raises a white-gloved hand toward the portrait of his deceased wife; Vulnavia in an elegant white gown and Art Deco surroundings; Phibes at the pink glowing perspex organ wearing a white silk cape.

#RemyReviews

'The Abominable Dr. Phibes' (1971) • 55 year old!

"macabre without becoming morbid ... tempers #horror tropes with a knowing sense of humour. Rarely, if ever, have the two genres blended so successfully."

read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four films stills: Chow Yun-fat as Tequila Yuen holds a cute and contented baby and a big pistol; Tony Leung as Alan and Chow Yun-fat hold guns to each other's heads; Chow Yun-fat, holding a white rose bud to his nose and Tony Leung both smile; Chow Yun-fat takes aim toward camera with a revolver.

#RemyReviews

'Hard Boiled' (1992)

John Woo delivers dazzling action with emotional punch in a spectacular Heroic Bloodshed classic starring Chow Yun-fat & Tony Leung - newly restored @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K UHD & #Bluray

read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk🎞️

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four black and white film stills: Yoshiko Mita as Kyoko & Kinnosuke Nakamura as Susumu Iikura in a 1960s interior wearing contemporary clothes; Kinnosuke Nakamura as Jirozaemon Iikura, an aging samurai n battle using a spear; Kinnosuke Nakamura as Kyutaro Iikura kneels at the side of Masayuki Mori as Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori in a period interior; Kinnosuke Nakamura as Osamu Iikura, a kamikaze pilot in the cockpit of his doomed plane.

#RemyReviews

'Cruel Tale of Bushido' (1963)

Tadashi Imai's historical #horror dismantles myth in a dark portmanteau boasting an exceptional central performance from Kinnosuke Nakamura as eight men from different generations

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk🎞️

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six film stills - top: a school girl, Tamaki Kenmochi as Touko, wearing Japanese 'sailor suit' uniform looks across a classroom to camera; Marie Jinno, Shôsuke as Riki Fudoh, Tanihara, Kenji Takano as Akira Aizone & Riki Takeuchi as Daigen Nohma; middle - Aya Kawamura sheds a tear in ‘Agitator’; Masaya Katô as Kunihiko raises his pistol toward camera; bottom: Riki Takeuchi as Kunisada is restrained by & Ken’ichi Endô as Shimatani; super-cool Joe Yamanaka & Yûya Uchida look into the camera in ‘Deadly Outlaw: Rekka’.

#RemyReviews

Underworld Chronicles: Three Yakuza Fables by Takashi Miike
new restored #Bluray box set @filmsradiance.bsky.social

'Fudoh: The New Generation' (1996)
'Agitator' (2001)
'Deadly Outlaw: Rekka' (2002)

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk🎞️

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#Japan #filmsky

four black and white film stills: Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrrington smiles, lit by moonlight; Henry Fonda as Charles Pike in a montage sequence as the text of a letter appears translucent in the fame; Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck about to kiss as a horse looks at them very closely; Henry Fonda wearing black bow tie and white tuxedo kneels in front of a seated Barbara Stanwyck.

#RemyReviews

'The Lady Eve' (1941) turns 85!

"...sharp-witted & its themes risqué, though intelligent enough to closely skirt what was permissible in its day without once crossing a line... what was funny then still is today..."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Brent Jennings, Bill Pullman and Cathy Tyson crouch at the side of an open coffin; Bill Pullman in a candlelit cavern being attacked by a large snake that is exuding from the mouth of a skeletal corpse bride; Paul Winfield seems to be warning Cathy Tyson and Bill Pullman who are looking very concerned; street scene at night lit by flaming torches in which a man in top head and skull-pained face is centre of attention.

#RemyReviews

Wes Craven's 'The Serpent & the Rainbow' (1988)

"...supernatural #horror could be explained as hysteria or drug-induced hallucinations. But there’s a darker thread running through it all: a tangible human evil"

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: high-angle shot past a bare lightbulb of Denholm Elliott as Harry Beddows sits in a pentagram drawn on the wooden floor of a room that appears to be in turmoil; Nastassja Kinski as Catherine Beddows, a young nun, reads a book about the Devil; Christopher Lee as Father Michael Raynor looms over a plastic doll in a candlelit temple; three people sit around an altar table with a pentagram cloth covering and six pentacles lit by two tall candles on a higher black altar on which lies a sword...

#RemyReviews

'To the Devil a Daughter' (1976) 𖤐 50 years old

"heady mix of Freudian nightmare, sexual tension, straightforward blood & gore... one of the more transgressive movies to come out of the British mainstream in the '70s"

#movie #review @framerated.co.uk 𖤐 medium.com/framerated/t...

four film stills: Tony Hancock, wearing a black beret turns away from a grotesque sculpture to glare at camera; a long row of identical desks in a large office, each with an identically dressed man wearing dark suits sat at them; Hancock dressed as a colourful bird is embraced by Margit Saad as Margot Carreras wearing a glittery black cat suit. Irene Handl and Hancock stand each side of a painting hung above a fireplace.

#RemyReviews

'The Rebel' (1961) which turns 65 years old!

Tony Hancock stars in "the funniest film ever made about modern #art & it remains a shining example of classic British #comedy writing..."

read my extended #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four black and wite film stills: Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke Tsukue leans against a wall, grinning maniacally; and considering his unsheathed his sword watched by Michiyo Aratama as Ohama; Michiyo Aratama makes a pleading gesture with both hands pressed together in a snowy landscape; Tatsuya Nakadai is dishevelled in battle with sword raised and ready while three opponents lurk in the smokey background...

#RemyReviews

'The Sword of Doom' (1966) at 60 years old!

"The finale is one of the most impressive & insanely well-choreographed action sequences in all cinema... breath-taking composition & inventive use of varying focal depths."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: United Planets Starship C-57D preparing to land on Altair IV in ‘Forbidden Planet’; Jack Kelly as Farman, blaster in hand, Warren Stevens as “Doc” Ostrow, Leslie Nielsen as Commander Adams, all wearing grey military style uniforms; Leslie Nielsen again talking to Walter Pidgeon as Dr Morbius with Robby the Robot and Anne Francis as Altaira Morbius wearing a mini-dress in the background in a Modernist interior; a marvellous matte painting of the vast alien machinery of the Krell with three tiny figures walking past a row of glowing spheres along a long platform.

#RemyReviews

'Forbidden Planet' (1956) • 70 Years Later

looking back on the development & legacy of the Shakespearean #scifi classic that brought the Golden Age to the screen & changed everything, maybe inspiring #StarTrek

my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Jun Izumi as Nami in 'Angel Guts: Red Porno' with an out of focus television screen in the darkness beyond her profile; Eri Kanuma as Nami in 'Angel Guts: Nami' crouches in the rain in front of a portion of a huge neon sign with 'OLA' in red against bright blue; close up of Yūki Mizuhara as Nami in 'Angel Guts: Red Classroom' with another film being projected onto her face the screen behind her; Naoto Takenaka as Muraki stands at the side of his car looking across its roof at Mayako Katsuragi as Nami who lies unconscious across the boot in 'Angel Guts: Red Vertigo'.

#RemyReviews

'The Angel Guts Collection' (1979–88)

my #movie #review of a disconcerting concoction of #art, porn & body #horror based on Takashi Ishii’s cult #manga
@thirdwindowfilms.com LE #Bluray Box Set

Red Classroom
Nami
Red Porno
Red Vertigo

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four black and white films stills: a young boy clambers onto a pile of fruit in heavy. glittering rain; a fighter plane, with one wing missing has nose-dived into the shore of a lake, a flare lights the night scene; a soldier stands aside a deep trench and embraces a woman who is saved and suspended by him; a young boy stands among the debris of a burnt out building.

#RemyReviews

'Ivan's Childhood' (1962)

"...the whole film is one of the richest cinematic experiences one could hope for, perhaps only out-done by every other Tarkovsky film..."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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#art #cinema #history

four film stills: Nigel Terry as King Arthur with his knights behind him under a red banner; Nicol Williamson as Merlin wearing his distinctive silver helmet and holding his staff, topped by twin silver snakes; an ethereal vision of a caped king; Helen Mirren as Morgana sprinkles glitter over Robert Addie as Mordred, clad in golden armour.

#RemyReviews

John Boorman's excellent 'Excalibur' (1981)

my #movie #review of the mythic epic masterpiece remastered
@arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K #Bluray & it's never looked better!

"For it is the doom of men that they forget."

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four film stills: Kinnosuke Nakamura as Miyamoto Musashi holds his katana left-handed while protecting a child with his right arm with trees and sky behind them; Kinnosuke Nakamura as Miyamoto Musashi and Wakaba Irie as Otsu stand near the wooden railing of a bridge with a backdrop of blue sky; Musashi stands ready to face at least six opponents among tall grass; a grimy Musashi lies on his back among bright red ferns.

#RemyReviews

‘Zen & Sword: The Miyamoto Musashi Saga at Toei' (1961–65)

my #movie #review of nearly 10 hours of Tomu Uchida’s uneven, sometimes excellent, epic samurai biopic newly restored @arrowvideo.bsky.social #Bluray

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#Japan #cinema #history

four black and white film stills: Dominique Boschero as Helene Coreau in a blank corridor holding a candlestick with three candles; Luciano Pigozzi as Paul Benoit stands dangerously close to the edge of a rugged clifftop in bright daylight; a young boy holding a Jiminy-cricket figure looks sideways and off camera; Giancarlo Giannini as Christian Coreau opens a window to look out into the night and toward camera.

#RemyReviews

'Libido' (1965)

"...psychological suspense may have murky themes ... but the puzzle at the heart of its plot is a pleasure to solve."

read my #movie #review of this neo #gothic proto #giallo restored @filmsradiance.bsky.social #Bluray

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four film stills: an identity parade of eight hatted priests in dark suits stood in a row; Nadia Cassini as Liz reclining on a rattan lounger; Michael Caine with his chin soaped up holing the wrist of the barber as they both look at someone off-camera; a group of ladies in what could be period costume stand together, the four at the front of the group hold placards with letters on them that spell "F**K" (with the two asterisks)

#RemyReviews

'Pulp' (1971)

"Michael Caine seems to be an Englishman lost in Giallo-land... a mystery that gets more complicated as the protagonist nears a solution, a murder with impossible or inexplicable elements, red-herrings"

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Karl Malden walks with the young Cinzia De Carolis along a street at night, she wears a red coat and they seem to be be followed at a distance by a red car; high-angle shot of Karl Malden working on a crossword puzzle design; a modern 1970s office with a group of people in the distance and a green telephone looming in the foreground; close-up of Catherine Spaak, her face framed with blonde curls as she reclines.

#RemyReviews

'The Cat O’Nine Tails' (1971) is 55 years old!

"...veering towards the stylistic yet tightly wrapped in a finely crafted narrative... fans of Dario Argento must watch this film to understand his creative development"

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Malcolm McDowell wearing a contraption on his head that has hooks to keep his eyes open and staring; three droogs wearing the iconic white jumpsuits and black bowler hats; Malcolm McDowell dressed as a Roman soldier; Miriam Karlin wearing a green top on the red-carpeted floor with hear arms flung wide, mid-scream.

#RemyReviews

'A Clockwork Orange' (1971)

"...stimulating film that carved out its uniquely infamous place in cinema history for the psychological impact some people claimed it had on them ... fascinating & visually-arresting."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: the huge beast rear alongside a sinister, masked human and both are dark against a stormy sky; Émilie Dequenne and a veiled Monica Bellucci kneel at a chapel rail in a cathedral; a noble white wolf stands on an altar plinth in a ruined church; Mark Dacascos as Mani with ritual face and body paint opens his arms to the sky.

#RemyReviews

'Brotherhood of the Wolf' (2001) is 25 years old

#horror & martial arts collide with romance, intrigue, political machinations in an action-driven period drama - Christophe Gans' take on the Beast of Gévaudan #folklore

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Iroha & Kaguya in their kemonomimi forms of kitsune and rabbit wearing costumes that have glowing parts; the three-person VR gaming group 'Black Onyx' who have small demonic horns; a view form the ceiling of two young girls sitting on the floor of a living room with an electronic keyboard between them; two small figures standing on mirror-surfaced water between red torii gates with a sunset sky.

#RemyReviews 🌝

'Cosmic Princess Kaguya!' 💫

#JPop fantasy & lunar legends collide in gorgeous anime from #StudioColorido & #Netflix 🎍 fun, frenetic, heartfelt & stuffed with pop culture memes 🐙 maybe the #anime event of 2026

🪩read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Kôji Tsuruta as Asajiro crouches in darkness, his shirt is off to reveal his yakuza tattoos on shoulders and upper arms; a group of men sit in a hall decorated with hanging scrolls; Sumiko Fuji as Hatsue smiles, with a tree in the background outlined by the last vestiges of golden sunset; a group of people gather at the bedside of a man who is clearly unwell.

#RemyReviews

'Blood of Revenge' (1965)

Tai Katō’s seminal, stylish yakuza saga on #Bluray @filmsradiance.bsky.social - "a handsome hero torn between love & honour, fated romance, gangland machinations, despicable villains"

read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk:

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four film stills: left - right top are Kotone Furukawa as Akiko hugging Masaki Suda as Yoshii as he looks at a computer (off-screen) in ‘Cloud’; close-up of Kôji Yakusho as Yabuike, standing in dark woodland with a wad of gauze on his right cheek in ‘Charisma’; Yoriko Dôguchi as Chizuru lies on a cobbled floor in ‘Charisma’; a sinister man with a 'pillow case' mask stands in autumnal woodland in 'Cloud'.

🍄 🌱 🖥️ 🪙
#RemyReviews

'Charisma' (1999) & 'Cloud' (2024) ☁️

unnerving suspense & strangeness from Kiyoshi Kurosawa - a challenging yet deeply rewarding experience for those interested in the #cinema of #Japan

my #reviews of new 2 x #movie #Bluray @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: the masterminds behind Galaxy in their cavernous hi-tech lair; Shelby Grant as Leslie, Gila Golan as Gila, Gianna Serra as Gina, Sigrid Valdis as Anna, Helen Funai as Sakito gather around James Coburn as Derek Flint - they all appear to be wet and lit with a warm red glow; Flint in his stylish apartment looks up at four stylish women standing with the backs to camera; Lee J Cobb as Cramden on the using the red presential telephone, which is held by a uniformed army officer near to a black limousine with an aeroplane in the background.

#RemyReviews

'Our Man Flint' (1966) • 60 Years Later 🔥 James Coburn’s retro-futurist spy satire outshines #JamesBond

"...the ridiculously cool secret agent was not so much a pastiche of Bond but a counter-argument..."

🪑 read my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🪑

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Golden Globes: KPop Demon Hunters wins best animated film and best original song The film's breakout anthem Golden was also named best original song at the awards on Sunday.

#RemyReviews

2025's #movie mega-hit 'KPop Demon Hunters' won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature while its breakout anthem 'Golden' is named Best Original Song

my #review @framerated.co.uk 🎞️ ICYMI:

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#animation #KPop #music

four film stills: Daimajin aka Lord Bujin a giant statue of a warrior god that can come to life with a flame atop his helmet is dwarfed by a skull like dragon's head with fiery red eyes; a kitsune fox-masked Yokai surrounded by a crackling magical aura; the two young prtagonist brothers ride on the shoulders of Daimajin with a background of raging fires; a young boy holds up a red prayer scroll in a dark shrine;

of recent viewing, Takashi Miike's 'The Great Yōkai War: Guardians' (2021) is a fave 🐉 an impressive #Yōkai count & spectacular visuals throughout 🦊 I loved the first film & you can read my #movie #review of 'The Great Yōkai War' (2005) @framerated.co.uk

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Yui Natsukawa as Nami [Third Window Films]

Masatoshi Nagase as Maiku Hama [Third Window Film]

My extended reviews of those excellent box sets may be of interest?

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Maiku Hama Trilogy: medium.com/framerated/k...

@thirdwindowfilms.com release the most interesting physical media right now. Plus a forthcoming 2nd Nami box set too! #RemyReviews

four black and white film stills: a woman looks concerned or pensive having seemingly just read or written a letter; a man in full evening dress lies on the floor, his face is mask-like; a man stands with raised arms framed by a window; a man in formal attire ascends steps in the light of a streetlamp toward a harnessed horse that dominates the frame.

#RemyReviews

'La Plaisir (1952) - Max Ophüls' opus about pleasure

"Maupassant implies that it’s a fear of frustration that scares us into abandoning the pursuit of what truly pleases us... we choose inertia over action."

my classic #movie #review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills: Kirk Douglas as Einar wearing a helmet and holding a sword over his shoulder; Janet Leigh as Morgana with Tony Curtis as Eric; Kirk Douglass, now with an eye-patch, seated next to Ernest Borgnine as Lord Ragnar; a Viking long-boat sailing in a fjord.

#RemyReviews

'The Vikings' (1958) is a classic & "still good fun for sharing a family-sized tub of popcorn. You’ll be yelling “Odin!” & humming Mario Nascimbene’s rousing main theme long after it’s over…"

read my retro #movie review @framerated.co.uk

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four film stills from 'A Pistol for Ringo': Giuliano Gemma as Ringo peers from behind a wall near to the head of a wooden Christ figure; Lorella De Luca as Helen decorated a Christmas Tree; Giuliano Gemma front left with a line of cowboys in the background who look ready to draw (their pistols); and Giuliano Gemma again, explaining something to a few bandits at a table, using an apple and a charred stick...

#RemyReviews another alternative #Christmas #Movie

'A Pistol for Ringo' (1965) - if Hammer had been Italian & made cowboy films, in Spain, they would’ve looked something like Duccio Tessari's spaghetti western duology

- my #movie #review of both @framerated.co.uk
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four black and white film stills: James Stewart as George Bailey gesturing to indicate how big something was; the bridge scene in the snow as George finds Zuzu's petals and shows then to the police man; James Stewart and Donna Reed; the final scene with everyone gathered around George on his return.

"Zuzu's petals! Zuzu's petals!" 🥀

#RemyReviews

'It's a Wonderful Life' released OTD, 1946 - the greatest #Christmas movie? "...after just 11-minutes, only the most heartless won’t be surreptitiously wiping a tear from their eye."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
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